Biography
Brenda Blethyn
Acting
Brenda Anne Blethyn is an English actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. Blethyn has received two Academy Award nominations, two SAG Award nominations, two Emmy Award nominations and three Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one. In addition, she has won a BAFTA, an Empire Award and a Golden Lion, and has earned a Theater World Award and both a Critics' Circle Theatre Award and a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for her theatrical work. Born into a wor…
Career works
103
Movies
64
Series
39
Career average
6.7/10
Birth date
02/20/1946
Place of birth
Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK
Filmography highlights
Movies
Dragonfly
2025 · 6.4
Vera, Farewell Pet
2025
Charlotte
2022 · 6.4
Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen
2018
Ethel & Ernest
2016 · 7.5
Two Men in Town
2014 · 5.5
Mary and Martha
2013 · 6.3
My Angel
2011 · 4.0
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The Many Faces of... Michael Caine
2011
The Calling
2010
My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Super Duper Super Sleuths
2010 · 8.0
Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too
2009 · 6.6
London River
2009 · 6.7
Dead Man Running
2009 · 5.8
Clubland
2007 · 5.2
Series
A Woman of Substance
2026 · 7.9
Kate & Koji
2020 · 6.1
Playhouse Presents
2012 · 6.0
Vera
2011 · 7.4
War and Peace
2007 · 6.3
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · 7.2
The One Show
2006 · 4.4
The New Adventures of Old Christine
2006 · 7.1
Between The Sheets
2003 · 5.2
V Graham Norton
2002 · 5.3
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
2001 · 7.4
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · 8.0
So Graham Norton
1998 · 7.4
The Frank Skinner Show
1995 · 7.5
Outside Edge
1994 · 7.6